X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=42e777795f9003bac7857aa986cc471e02f212ef;hp=5e00e4e4540243185e164bc9ff842df358a0c2a8;hb=dabe72cb8b7b23cc6e6158d458327313b8a8495a;hpb=d37f69795396ec2354eb2d8480d64b9e5bdafacc diff --git a/README b/README index 5e00e4e..42e7777 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -13,11 +13,13 @@ schemes, qcow, qcow2, vmdk. Libguestfs provides ways to enumerate guest storage (eg. partitions, LVs, what filesystem is in each LV, etc.). It can also run commands -in the context of the guest. Also you can access filesystems over FTP. +in the context of the guest. Also you can access filesystems over +FUSE. Libguestfs is a library that can be linked with C and C++ management -programs (or management programs written in OCaml, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java -or Haskell). You can also use it from shell scripts or the command line. +programs (or management programs written in OCaml, Perl, Python, Ruby, +Java, Haskell or C#). You can also use it from shell scripts or the +command line. Libguestfs was written by Richard W.M. Jones (rjones@redhat.com) and hacked on by lots of other people. For discussion, development, @@ -50,6 +52,10 @@ Requirements - genisoimage / mkisofs +- libxml2 + +- (Optional) FUSE to build the FUSE module + - (Optional) Augeas (http://augeas.net/) - perldoc (pod2man, pod2text) to generate the manual pages and @@ -62,11 +68,9 @@ Requirements - (Optional) xmllint to validate virt-inspector RELAX NG schema -- (Optional) OCaml if you want to rebuild the generated files, and - also to build the OCaml bindings - -- (Optional) OCaml xml-light, only needed if you want to rebuild the - virt-inspector bindings from virt-inspector.rng. +- (Optional) OCaml + OCaml library xml-light if you want to rebuild + the generated files, and also to build the OCaml bindings + (http://tech.motion-twin.com/xmllight.html) - (Optional) local Fedora mirror @@ -268,8 +272,8 @@ Notes on cross-architecture support At the moment we basically don't support cross-architecture or 32-on-64. This limits what is possible for some guests. Filesystem -operations and FTP export will work fine, but running commands in -guests may not be possible. +operations and FUSE will work fine, but running commands in guests may +not be possible. To enable this requires work for cross-architecture and 32-on-64 support in febootstrap, fakeroot and fakechroot.